Do you assume people on the internet are from the same country as you?
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Depends on the method of interaction - if I'm playing Guild Wars, the odds are good the people I'm going to meet are Americans or Canadian by virtue of the time zone difference meaning most folks overseas aren't going to be on at the same time as myself.
Here I pretty much assume everyone isn't American until informed otherwise, given the Escapist's base of operations and all.
Here I pretty much assume everyone isn't American until informed otherwise, given the Escapist's base of operations and all.
No never. I'm from Austria and it always surprises me when I meet someone from there online.
On another subject: I usually post in English forums and sometimes I make grammatical errors because English just ain't my first language. It's never happened on the Escapist yet, but sometimes people nit-pick about and go "Learn English before you write something!" and that's quite annoying. I know it's the interwebzz and people can be real abominations of evilness, but it's still pretty offending.[/rant]
On another subject: I usually post in English forums and sometimes I make grammatical errors because English just ain't my first language. It's never happened on the Escapist yet, but sometimes people nit-pick about and go "Learn English before you write something!" and that's quite annoying. I know it's the interwebzz and people can be real abominations of evilness, but it's still pretty offending.[/rant]
Never seen it spelled like that before in my life. Not here or anywhere else. My badAmnestic said:
I live in Scotland. I'm one of the few Scotsmen who found a cave with internet access and enough dead rabbit skins to buy me a computermabob in the country, although I had to downgrade to one-ply leaves and not washing my kilt for a while.
Nah, not really, but there's a significant portion of Scottish people who are idiots and care only for games in which they get to inflict some sort of damage on another member of the human race as quickly as possible. They don't bother with websites like this, so I tend to assume that people are from America, since the online services are plagued with Americans who want to have their unimportant say, and these Americans have embittered me to the point of no return where I assume that these shrivelled automatons of "run shoot kill insult opinion repeat" are all that exist.
Inform me of the hypocrisy and I'll do nothing, as I don't conform to Jonathan Gabriel's Internet Fuckwad Theory.
Nah, not really, but there's a significant portion of Scottish people who are idiots and care only for games in which they get to inflict some sort of damage on another member of the human race as quickly as possible. They don't bother with websites like this, so I tend to assume that people are from America, since the online services are plagued with Americans who want to have their unimportant say, and these Americans have embittered me to the point of no return where I assume that these shrivelled automatons of "run shoot kill insult opinion repeat" are all that exist.
Inform me of the hypocrisy and I'll do nothing, as I don't conform to Jonathan Gabriel's Internet Fuckwad Theory.
I'm Brazilian. Meeting another Brazilian on the web is a fortuitous occasion indeed, even if they are rarely cheery nerdy girls living at a car's ride from my current locations. So I guess no.
Not at all. If for no other reason, then because my grandparents are on the internet, and they (and all of my extended family) are in a different country/on a different continent. And I talk to them everyday.
Same, but that habit is slowly breaking due to the diversity of people, terminology, and opinions here.irefusetoincludenumbersinthisname said:
